Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-05
MARRIED IN HER SLEEP.
The Remarkable story of "a Toledo Girl
Who Was Hastily welded.

Abigail Stark, a young, prepOsscs,iu
girl OF the Fifth Ward, is a somnambuli-t,
says the Toledo Blade. She has been
known to walk distance Of two miles 40
a stretch without waking up. Miss Stark
was courted by young man from the
Third Ward, John Derby, % likely fellow,
but for some reason he aud the old folks
could not get alon- together. one night
recently while John and Abigail were re-
turning from a party, John proposed that
they should get married without further
delay. She asked till the following oven
ing to consider the strange proposition
After he left his sweetheart he went 20
visit friend, and, returning at % later
hour, met his Abigail. Ilr asked her If
she had really determined 20 marry him
that night and She replied y cs' in The
most endearlng terms. Late as the hour
was they hurried TO ministers and, with
his wife for Witness the knot was tied
Abigail answered all questions properly,
and was apparently as happy %, John over
the result. She had not Withdrawn her
veil during the ceremony, nor had john i'm
his rapturcs thought OF asking her 10 Go
so. They decided that she should return
to her auuts and remain there for day
or two, when they should 50 into thC..
own home The following evening b.
was again by her side. Ills inst words
were: My wife now, in spite OF every
one" She looked al him rs though She
thought him crazy. Your wife. she
exclaimed; Il have not accepted your
proposition yet; YOU presume too much,
sir. He showed her the certificate and
then it all came back to Acr. She said sAe
had gone TO her room after leaving him,
and being very tired had air down ON the
bed without undressing. The circuu-
stances of the marriage had all come %
her us dream, and When she arose that
morning she had not gwen the matter u
second thought. But now That he had re.
called the marriage she remembered aA
the details, and the result was that she de-
icrmined 70 stand by her words.
\ New Pied piper.
Prince Bismarck's second SON seems TO
be destined TO bring before The world "a
modern disciple of The famous piper Of
Hamelin. Count VIII, who since his re
cent marriage, has exchanged lis lively
bachelor amuscmcnts for a retired life in
some sombrc ancestral castle, has had his
honeymoon interrupted in the most prosaic
manner by formidable army of mice
which infested the place from cellar TO
garnet, causing the greatest annoyance and
In the nick of time, when, like the locusis
of Pharaoh, very grcyious were they,
a man presented himself before the Count
and entered into a contract, 20 the effect
that he would cause every mouse 10 dslp-
pear as soon as he was promised 100 marks
in payment. No sooner SAID than done.
The mice vanished rs if by cnchantmcnt.
but Count VIII refused to pay when The
man soon after demanded his 100 marks.
on the plea that a servant had still seen one
mouse at the stables After cudeayoriug
in vain to find the last of the yauqui,hed
host, the charmer once more demanded,
and was refused payment as long as he
could not prove the noncNistence oil the
stable mouse. IN despair he went at last
before the magistrates, and his case is now
pending. Fortunately. the castle where
Count VIII is residing is situated iu q very
lonely part of the country where there is
but little danger of the terrible revenge Of
the first famous rat catcher being repeated.